top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-18

How cork is made

http://www.wineanorak.com/corks/howcorkismade.htm

14 years ago

514 upvotes – 120 comments

Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/168751/is-the-use-of-utf8-preferable-to-utf8-true

14 years ago

459 upvotes – 87 comments

New $250 Chromebook

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-new-chromebook-for-everyone.html

14 years ago

423 upvotes – 329 comments

Free Flag Icons

https://www.gosquared.com/resources/2400-flags

14 years ago

304 upvotes – 76 comments

Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available

http://www.ubuntu.com/#12.10

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 163 comments

Jon Stewart: Lower entrepreneurial risk

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/jon-stewart-proposes-an-entrepreneurial-policy-dont-laugh/

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 187 comments

Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/ubuntu-12-10-quantal-quetzal-takes-flight-with-a-bag-full-of-juju/

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 120 comments

Such a Little Thing: The Semicolon in Rust

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/10/18/such-a-little-thing/

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 74 comments

Interview with creator of Nginx, Igor Sysoev

http://www.webhostingskills.com/open_source/articles/interview_with_creator_of_nginx_igor_sysoev

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 43 comments

Rails 4.0 Whirlwind Tour Presentation

http://highgroove.com/articles/2012/10/16/rails-4.0-whirlwind-tour.html

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 20 comments

Apple Said to Acquire Color

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/18/color-gets-acquired-by-apple-rumor/?utm_medium=Spreadus&awesm=tnw.to_a68g&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=social%20media

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 138 comments

Someone is jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/transmission-interference.html

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: A simple lightweight CSS grid, not a bloated framework

http://thisisdallas.github.com/Simple-Grid/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 61 comments

Google Earnings Come Early; Shares Drop

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/10/18/google-earnings-come-early-shares-drop/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 133 comments

New "Surveillance-Proof" App To Secure Communications Has Governments Nervous

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/10/silent_circle_mike_janke_s_iphone_app_makes_encryption_easy_governments.single.html

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Sift through recently dropped .com's in order of pronounceability, etc.

http://www.swola.com

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 35 comments

Life hacks to make things easier

http://mintfish.tumblr.com/post/33739276329/99-life-hacks-to-make-your-life-easier

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 33 comments

Apple loses UK tablet design appeal versus Samsung

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19989750

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 54 comments

Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old Law

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/minnesota-gives-coursera-the-boot-citing-a-decades-old-law/40542

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 88 comments

Github: Major Service Outage

https://status.github.com/?a

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 73 comments

Megaupload Is Dead. Long Live Mega

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/megaupload-mega/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 66 comments

The New Grooveshark

http://blog.grooveshark.com/post/33776758687/the-new-grooveshark

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 89 comments

Newsweek to Cease Print Publication at End of Year

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/newsweek-will-cease-print-publication-at-end-of-year/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 55 comments

Reddit's Moral Low Ground

http://raganwald.posterous.com/reddits-moral-low-ground

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 186 comments

Redis in my Postgres

http://craigkerstiens.com/2012/10/18/connecting_to_redis_from_postgres/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 22 comments

Colourlovers (YC W10) launches Creative Market

https://creativemarket.com/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: One OAuth API for Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Email

https://www.dailycred.com/introducing-social?redirect=false

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

An Introduction to Graphviz via R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet”

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=119

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 10 comments

Why is Tweetbot for Mac $20?

http://tapbots.com/blog/news/tweetbot-mac/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 84 comments

Developers: Don't Treat the Windows Store like the iOS App Store

http://blog.markedup.com/2012/10/win8-developers-dont-make-the-terrible-mistake-of-treating-the-windows-store-like-the-ios-app-store/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 50 comments

MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $6 Million For Database As Service Engine

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/18/mongohq-raises-6-million-for-database-as-service-engine/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Iron Man 3 and the Human Chain

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/iron-man-3-and-the-human-chain

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

The science behind how your productivity is chosen by what you eat

http://blog.bufferapp.com/the-science-behind-how-your-nutrition-will-decide-your-productivity-for-today

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 53 comments

The rise of passive-aggressive wi-fi names

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19760006

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 50 comments

Conway's game of death - making an IOCCC winner

http://blog.circleci.com/conways-game-of-death/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: NoobNinja - get and give help for specific coding or design tasks

http://noobninja.com/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 35 comments

Reverse-Engineering Twitter To Solve An Advertising Mystery

http://www.fastcompany.com/3002016/reverse-engineering-twitter-solve-advertising-mystery

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

UberTAXI is arriving in San Francisco

http://blog.uber.com/2012/10/17/taxi-is-arriving-in-san-francisco/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 46 comments

Selling Umbrellas In A Synagogue

http://danshipper.com/selling-umbrellas-in-a-synagogue#

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments

Deanonymizing You: I know who you are after 1 click online or a mobile call

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/deanonymizing-you-i-know-who-you-are-after-1-click-online-or-mobile-call

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

Coursera course on game development using Python (first homework due tomorrow)

https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

Twilio Is Crushing It: 150K Devs, 1.5M Phone Calls/Day, 500M Total Phone Calls

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/17/twilio-is-crushing-it-150k-developers-1-5m-api-calls-a-day-1b-total-phone-calls-expanding-to-20-more-countries/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 45 comments

Color acqhired for $2-5M

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/10/18/apple-reportedly-bought-colors-talent-but-not-the-company

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 45 comments

Signal Processing Primer

http://mynameismjp.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/signal-processing-primer/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 1 comments

Distributed Systems: Take Responsibility for Failover

http://ivolo.me/distributed-systems-take-responsibility-for-failover/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 2 comments
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